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thanks Jwhampton for your reply. i will try and continue telling myself that.it is sooo hard, i miss my boy so much, it doesnt help when 50 yr old Janet Jackson just had a baby and me a 31 lost mine. i am jealous, but happy for her

I just have to point out, however, that *your* side of the placenta is closest to the baby. The ischemic part was your partner's layer, which again relates to this being an immune mediated rejection of an invasive foreign organ. The pathology report of the placenta sounds pretty much in line with what I'd expect out of a preeclamptic pregnancy.

Repeat this as often as you need to hear it: you did absolutely nothing wrong. This is not your fault. You did not cause this to happen.

Good luck!

So testings for immune issues and blood disorders came out negative. My antithrombin is on the lower side, so i will take a new bloodtest in some weeks because the specialist thought its residual from the preeclampsia and pregnancy loss. Pathology showed nothing wrong with baby, everything was wrong on my side of the placenta, showing acute and chronic ischemia, bleeding and nekrosis. Diagnosis is Small placenta with widespread acute and chronic ischemia and acute atherosis

The only thing the specialist could say for certain was that i will take Aspirin in a future pregnancy and i need to lose weight. i am already working on losing some weight if that will help better circulation . we really want to try again for a baby since we are childless, but is Aspirin really all it takes, i am not convinced ? The specialist will not even take about heparin shots eventhough all the prbs were on my side of the placenta.

I have started with Metformin to help with my PCOS, my TSH t3 t4 are all ok, i feel like i shd be doing more, pls what am i missing ???

So testings for immune issues and blood disorders came out negative. My antithrombin is on the lower side, so i will take a new bloodtest in some weeks because the specialist thought its residual from the preeclampsia and pregnancy loss. Pathology showed nothing wrong with baby, everything was wrong on my side of the placenta, showing acute and chronic ischemia, bleeding and nekrosis. Diagnosis is Small placenta with widespread acute and chronic ischemia and acute atherosis

The only thing the specialist could say for certain was that i will take Aspirin in a future pregnancy and i need to lose weight. i am already working on losing some weight if that will help better circulation . we really want to try again for a baby since we are childless, but is Aspirin really all it takes, i am not convinced ? The specialist will not even take about heparin shots eventhough all the prbs were on my side of the placenta.

I have started with Metformin to help with my PCOS, my TSH t3 t4 are all ok, i feel like i shd be doing more, pls what am i missing ???

Thank you for sharing the studies. will definately keep you all updated after our talk with the doc who first gave me the PCOS diagnosis and what he says about me starting Metformin and our talk with MFM spesialist in desember . Good health to everyone

Metformin may help with any underlying insulin resistance, which may help overall-but any studies showing anything about implantation are studies done in petri dishes and are still jumping into the implantation process a step or two late.

Again, if you have an underlying insulin resistance (because that's something PCOS does), addressing that may be beneficial in terms of overall health.

Thank you for sharing the studies. will definately keep you all updated after our talk with the doc who first gave me the PCOS diagnosis and what he says about me starting Metformin and our talk with MFM spesialist in desember . Good health to everyone

Then what is most likely going on is that you are indeed a chronic hypertensive-that your pressures rose above your baseline before the 20 week mark is indicative of that.

If you've been diagnosed with PCOS, then PCOS itself induces a mild insulin resistance as a baseline, and pregnancy further exacerbates that. That you have PCOS also means you have an underlying disease process (that may or may not be autoimmune, I need to finish reading the latest on it first) that predisposes you to have a twitchy immune system and makes implantation more difficult. Thyroid issues and diabetes both tend to occur with PCOS-it's called comorbidity. That you've been tested for this already is promising.

As far as your weight: keep in mind that PCOS induces a mild insulin resistance as a baseline and that's in addition to the extra testosterone and its' masculinizing effects. So yes, while your weight is an additional risk factor-it is only a factor, not a cause. It is also not a factor you likely have much control over, because again-PCOS. I would strongly recommend adding at least an endocrinologist to your care team and possibly one with experience in assisted reproduction/complicated pregnancies.

I will tell you that I have friends here who attempted for ten years and finally had to resort to ART because of her PCOS; their son is three months old now. There's hope.

Dear jwhampton,
pls nothing you write will strike a nerve here. i appreciate your honesty and your views and love that you bring up possibilities. My BP dropped again after i gave birth to my boy, i am currently off the BP medicines, so my hypertension was pregnancy induced, but i am not ruling out a hiden chronic hypertension here. i am going to invest in a BP machine as soon as i can and will watch it like a hawk , since i read pre e makes my risk og future cardio prbs higher. Before getting pregnant, i never had a high BP like the one i had at 12 weeks and voiced out it was high and got the "big woman" answer. it went down again at the controll a couple of days after and i didnt even think about it again until things started unfolding. Now i know better than to accept such answers from my doctor, i am much wiser and i feel more knowledgeable

I do not have insulin resistence or diabetes as at now and neither do i have thyroid issues, it was checked before every new IVF . but all these will have to be checked again before a new IVF. My obesity i think is because i love my sofa after a long day at work, love my big portions , stop excercising after getting some results and genes (African).

Yes i have PCOS no signs of insulin resistens yet, but we had IVF mainly because og Male Factor Infertility. i do understand the theories around ART and pre e now. i am learning more and more each day and hope i am well prepared next time. I know our specialist has already recommended Aspirin from week 6 in a future pregnancy , normal ultrasounds 8,12, Ultrasounds with specialist from week 18, BP at doctors with urintests and bloods as soon as pregnant and every 2 weeks. i feel like we will be going into a new pregnancy very prepared. wish i knew what i know now with my little boy and first pregnancy

Dear jwhampton,
pls nothing you write will strike a nerve here. i appreciate your honesty and your views and love that you bring up possibilities. My BP dropped again after i gave birth to my boy, i am currently off the BP medicines, so my hypertension was pregnancy induced, but i am not ruling out a hiden chronic hypertension here. i am going to invest in a BP machine as soon as i can and will watch it like a hawk , since i read pre e makes my risk og future cardio prbs higher. Before getting pregnant, i never had a high BP like the one i had at 12 weeks and voiced out it was high and got the "big woman" answer. it went down again at the controll a couple of days after and i didnt even think about it again until things started unfolding. Now i know better than to accept such answers from my doctor, i am much wiser and i feel more knowledgeable

I do not have insulin resistence or diabetes as at now and neither do i have thyroid issues, it was checked before every new IVF . but all these will have to be checked again before a new IVF. My obesity i think is because i love my sofa after a long day at work, love my big portions , stop excercising after getting some results and genes (African).

Yes i have PCOS no signs of insulin resistens yet, but we had IVF mainly because og Male Factor Infertility. i do understand the theories around ART and pre e now. i am learning more and more each day and hope i am well prepared next time. I know our specialist has already recommended Aspirin from week 6 in a future pregnancy , normal ultrasounds 8,12, Ultrasounds with specialist from week 18, BP at doctors with urintests and bloods as soon as pregnant and every 2 weeks. i feel like we will be going into a new pregnancy very prepared. wish i knew what i know now with my little boy and first pregnancy